LogFAQs > #881557700

This is something I've always found interesting but Sci-fi tends to skip over, is the idea of how other nations would respond to first contact. In most stories aliens land in America and "Earthlings" become one lump of people.

Only sci-fi I can even think of that addresses this was like 2 throwaway lines in Star Trek Enterprise.

But what if Aliens come to Earth, highly advanced, far beyond our technological level, with a much deeper understanding of science, far stronger and more intelligent than us and harder to kill than Arnold Schwarzenegger in an action movie.

But then these aliens don't land in America, they don't meet with the president. Instead they land in China or Russia or Iran or North Korea or Wales or Yemen.

Now Putin and Russian officials are having diplomatic first contact meetings with these aliens who could turn the US into soup with their advanced ships alone in orbit if they desired and there's not really much of a thing we could do to stop them.

How would you react? Not only to the knowledge that we are not alone in the universe, but that the aliens are talking to your neighbors, not you.

Also how do you think your nation's goverment would react?
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^ Hey now that's completely unfair.
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